I was thinking, So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'l…

Robert Graves
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I was thinking, So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. ✨ Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god, Carcanet Press Ltd.
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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason. ✨ Robert Graves (2013). Selected Poems, p.159, Faber & Faber
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. ✨ Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). Some speculations on lite … ▶
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by. ✨ Robert Grav … ▶
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. ✨ Robert Graves (1962). Oxford Addresses on Poetry
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. ✨ Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). Conversations with Robert Graves, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I was thinking, So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. ✨ Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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